Another essay I put on Medium back in '18. Worldbuilding gone awry; or, when the world is building the author: Not that your crazy wall would look like this. But then there’s maintenance. So you collaged clippings, notes, and printouts and used pins and color-coded threads to fully materialize your mind map. Everything is stuck on with … Continue reading REPOST: Living Wall of Cray-Cray
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The rotting God universe
Towards an entropic, Souls-like dark fantasy of grey vistas decomposing into black hole swirls: Something that would go like: Pressure clocks pinging on our wrists and weapons at the ready, we wander around the insides of massive space whale carcasses dodging the other gas-masked inhumans scavenging for the last dying embers. (Compare the charnel ground.) … Continue reading The rotting God universe
NatGeo-Gothic
From Gregory Marks: NatGeo explaining polar wander, thought to be accountable for the aridification of NE China ca. the Jurassic Era: Are we beholden to inorganic (te)cthonic deities?